About this project

Nov. 14, 2007

The trip

Laura Ungar and Kylene Lloyd spent three weeks in India during July and August. Ungar's trip was paid for by the International Center for Journalists in Washington, D.C., which is sponsored by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation in Oklahoma City and provides money and training to help journalists report stories connecting local and global issues. The Courier-Journal paid Lloyd's travel expenses.

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The reporter

Laura Ungar, 39, has been The Courier-Journal's medical writer since 2004. In her 17 years as a journalist in Kentucky, Delaware and Connecticut, her stories have won national, regional and local awards from organizations such as the Associated Press Managing Editors association, the National Press Women's Association, the Chesapeake Associated Press Editors and the Louisville Society of Professional Journalists. She has also earned fellowships from the National Press Foundation and the International Center for Journalists.. Major projects have examined Kentucky's poor health, black-lung disease and a young mother's fight against breast cancer. She lives in Louisville with her husband, son and daughter.

Kylene Lloyd, 26, has been a staff photographer at The Courier-Journal for 2 1/2 years. She grew up in Louisville, graduated from Western Kentucky University and had an internship at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. She has won awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the Kentucky Press Photographers Association and in College Photographer of the Year competition. At The Courier-Journal, she helped start "Neighborhood Clicks," and she has chronicled a young mother's struggle with breast cancer. She lives in Louisville.